SaskPower restores electricity to eastern Saskatchewan

The power is back on in eastern Saskatchewan.

In a news release late Saturday night, SaskPower reported that workers had fixed most of the primary lines in the affected areas.

However, about 620 customers were still without power overnight.

Early Sunday afternoon, the crown corporation updated its outage map, showing no unplanned outages in the province.

12:42 PM: Crews have now restored power to the majority of customers impacted by outages in the South & East of the province.Crews are now working on smaller area & individual customer outages and issues. For any further updates or information #skoutage 1/2

— SaskPower (@SaskPower) May 23, 2021

Widespread outages were caused across many areas of the east, including Yorkton and Melville, when an ice storm hit late Thursday night and early Friday morning. Freezing rain caused many trees to fall to the ground, which then broke power lines.